「討厭」有時真討厭

「討厭」是令人厭惡的意思,誇張一點的理解,就是請求別人厭惡,跟廣東話的「乞人憎」有異詞同工之妙;做到討求別人憎恨你、厭惡你,可謂賤莫甚矣!例句:「他這人真討厭」、「我絕對做不出那麼討厭的事」、「「討厭

My Dream Date with 空姐Elaine (updated news)

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Hi Elaine,

Just a quick update... so far, I have received quite a number of entries for My Dream Date Contest.

I will be meeting them for a chat and

The 5Cs of HOCC

這是我較早前在Marketing-Interactive這雜誌發表的文章,澳洲佬老編不知 何韻詩 是何許人,但此文的網上版出街後,卻獲得了該雜誌網站的最高紀錄的瀏覽量,他興高采烈地向我報捷又讚我寫得好云云,但我告訴她,這其實是拜 何韻詩 在網絡


Some things about getting useful output from time

No version of time has ever had what you could call a genuinely usefuldefault output format, at least not for benchmarking and testing. ThePOSIX (and System V) standard format has all of the information you wantin the right format (the times in simple seconds), but spreads it acrossmultiple lines; the BSD format used by csh puts the times in 'humanreadable' format of hours, minutes, and seconds, and includes a bunchof additional information (much of which is inaccurate, useless,


Some thoughts on intercepting https traffic

It's been pointed out to me that there are legitimate reasons tointercept and inspect https traffic, and this can even be a primarypurpose of having a local certificate authority .For example, breaking open https traffic can be vital for being able tosee and possibly analyze malware downloads.

(Note that you should really not do this covertly, without admittingthat you're inspecting https traffic. Sooner or later someone willnotice that the SSL certificate authority for some outside site is yourown internal CA, and things


哲學,一個危險的學科

哲學要人自省,卻往往令人自大。

哲學的一個目的是訓練人思考清晰,但很多人讀了哲學後頭腦反而越來越糊塗,而且是越糊塗越不知道自己糊塗到甚麼程度。

其他的學科,即使讀不好、讀不上,讀過幾年後或多或少也會學到一

Google Reader CSS3 Column bookmarklet

Screen 夠大的話,在 Google Reader 看長文會蠻辛苦,因為行太長。特別試製這個 bookmarklet,用 CSS3 Column 試作:

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Hard-code 了闊度是 20 個字左右,遇到大於此闊度的圖片則會 resize,而高度是 viewport height-240,再長的內容會打橫 scroll。效果如下:

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適用於 FF3+ 或


海港城的best kept secret

一般不會為看煙花而出外和人家迫,但今次例外。

上個月,有朋友為參加我的婚宴,專誠遠道從美國回港,我這位移民廿多年,已有資格自稱老華僑的老友,為了想給他今趟旅程一個美好回憶,我便趁適逢東亞運動會開幕典禮這

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Local CAs and an interesting consequence of the SSL security model

Suppose that your organization creates an internal organizationalCertificate Authority, so that it can issue SSL certificates for strictly internal hostnames . Of course, everyoneneeds to have the internal CA's certificate loaded in their browser andso on in order to get work done on your intranet; as a practical matter,you probably preload it in your standard machine setups. I suspect thatthis is a not uncommon setup in sufficiently large companies.

It's recently struck me that this has an interesting consequence: yourcompany security and firewall


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Preparedness is no laughing matter. It's real. Just when I think I've read up and prepped myself on a subject, the real thing will happen exactly.

To give you a little bit of the idea, I would say it's just like looking into a crystal ball. I believed that I should take a good look at Dr. Spook's Baby and Child Care yesterday; I then read the advice how to nurse and breast-feed a baby when the mother is ill. This